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New EDA software ban may a direct impact, and the ban has indeed
affect China’s chip ambitions dealt an effective blow to Huawei.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The global EDA China falling behind
software market size is estimated to Empyrean Technology is the leader of
grow from $8.1 billion to $13.6 billion China’s EDA industry but its technology,
from 2020 to 2024, with a compound revenue scale, and overall influence still
annual growth rate of 13.8%. fall far behind the American EDA industry.
Major players Empyrean Technology’s “analog circuit
At present, the EDA software market is design EDA” and “flat panel display circuit
oligopolistic, consisting of major players design EDA” are relatively mature while
Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens. “digital circuit design EDA” and “foundry
EDA” still lag significantly behind US-based
According to TrendForce, Synopsys, Ca- EDA and have not yet touched upon GAA
dence, and Siemens account for 32%, research and research and development.
30%, and 13% of the market, respective-
ly, in 2021, for a total 75% market share. License updates needed
Even if China purchased a large amount of
authorized EDA software before the cur-
Before mentioning the recent EDA sanc- rent sanctions take effect, the software
tion, recall that the United States placed must connect to the developer for license
Huawei on its Entity List in 2019. updates before it can be used.
At that time, American EDA companies This can be effectively controlled by the
including Synopsys and Cadence were af- United States. Although China’s IC de-
fected by the Entity List ban and could not sign has no need for GAA EDA in the short
authorize the transfer of EDA to Huawei’s term, it is necessary for developing ad-
HiSilicon. EDA departments and industry vanced 3nm process design in 3~5 years.
revenue as a whole have not experienced Without US-based EDA tools, Chinese IC
design will experience developmen-
years. Without US-based
EDA tools, Chinese IC de-
sign will experience devel-
opmental difficulties from
initial chip design to back-
end system design.
Chinese foundries require
the use of EDA and the con-
straints imposed by U.S.-
based equipment and soft-
ware sanctions may affect
the long-term development
of China's semiconductor
industry. trendforce.com
